Am I becoming an old fart?
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Vunic wrote:
"HR". The most useless part of any technology company.
FTFY :)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
Lol thanks. I had actually worked on different types of companies. Even the ones with the assembly line productions, interacting with contract labors. I feel HR definitely had a role there, there'd been a lot of labor issues everyday, right from cafeteria to sanitation. None of the worthy employees dare spend time on these trivial issues. HR shines there. :)
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response... Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today) I find that very annoying! :mad: wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...
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I oh so HATE open office concept. When I first started here I was on one side of the building that had proper full height walled cubes. Then a reorg happened and I was placed under a different manager on the opposite side of the building where they didn't have cubes but a snake of curved table sections. I went from having shelves and drawers to a table section that was barely big enough to hold my monitors. Then we moved buildings, my table is a little bigger and I use my stack of books (big thick things made of paper) as a partial barrier, it's almost 3 feet tall. The visual distraction of people moving about is almost as bad as the auditory. Yes, I have a big pair of over the ear headphones. They don't always have something playing in them but they are always on my head.
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Ok, with such a bait I can foresee the huge YES response... Joke apart, at my job we are a huge open office. And there often some people on the other side of the floor having humongously laugh every 30 seconds.. (particularly today) I find that very annoying! :mad: wonder whether this is a common reaction or not...
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Over time we all become old farts... :-D No, I find that I am the same. I think though that as we become older and (hopefully) more proficient at our profession, we tend to need to sink deeper into that "zone" to do the more complex design and architectural tasks. Which requires deeper concentration and mental resources to accomplish. Thus any external distractions become a more critical disruption to our work.
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Over time we all become old farts... :-D No, I find that I am the same. I think though that as we become older and (hopefully) more proficient at our profession, we tend to need to sink deeper into that "zone" to do the more complex design and architectural tasks. Which requires deeper concentration and mental resources to accomplish. Thus any external distractions become a more critical disruption to our work.
Andreas Mertens wrote:
Over time we all become old farts... :-D
Indeed! :laugh:
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I oh so HATE open office concept. When I first started here I was on one side of the building that had proper full height walled cubes. Then a reorg happened and I was placed under a different manager on the opposite side of the building where they didn't have cubes but a snake of curved table sections. I went from having shelves and drawers to a table section that was barely big enough to hold my monitors. Then we moved buildings, my table is a little bigger and I use my stack of books (big thick things made of paper) as a partial barrier, it's almost 3 feet tall. The visual distraction of people moving about is almost as bad as the auditory. Yes, I have a big pair of over the ear headphones. They don't always have something playing in them but they are always on my head.
Now that you remind me of it.. open space is not much loved.. for that very reason! haha!
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